Improved harness-pad



UNITED SrATEs PATEN'I' OFFICE.

CHARLES DREW, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY.

IMPRovED HARNEss-PAD.

Specification forining part of Letters Patent No. 86,376, dated February 2, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES DREW, of Newark, i'n the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Harness-Pad; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing` had to the accompanying drawings, ibrining part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved pad, one part of the same being broken away to exhibit the construction of the same. Fig. 2 is a cross-section at x w, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspeetive view of one of the broken pads.

Similar letters of reference indicatc like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide a harness-pad which combines several advantag'eous qualities, to Wit: It is easily and quickly made; is least liable to gali or chafe the animalis back; and can be cheaply and easily Vrenovated, and made as good as new by replacing' the leather eovering', when the same has become much worn and will not get hard, but always retain its elastic quality, thereby requiring 110 special care or attention, or manipulation to soften it after a period of disuse and the nvention consists in the peculiar construction of the pad, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A is one of the rubber fillings or pads, havingan indenture or recess, a,

to receive the nut-plate b, which is stitched or otherwise affiXed within the said recess a.

The screw-shanks of the rein-rings Z) serve to hold the rubber pad to the plate G.

D are auXiliary screws, fitting` into nut-plates lower down on the pad.

The rubber pad is covered with leather, as shown at Fig. 2.

The upper face of the rubber pad is hollowed or concaved, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so that it will be more firmly seated against the padplate when drawn against the same by the screws, and also to stretch the leather covering c d of the rubber more tightly, which stretching will result from the pressing' in of the part d of the said covering` when the pad and plate are drawn together.

The pad-plate is covered with leathcr in any suitable manner.

Having` thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The rubber pad A, eonstructed, as described, with the hollow back, and adapted to receive the plate O, in such a nianner that the leather covering` o d is depressed under the plate and stretched tightly over the bearing-surfacc of the pad, as herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 3lst day of August, 1868.

CH. DREW.

Witnesses FRANK BLooKLEY, ALEX. F. RoBnRrs. 

